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Webster 1913 Edition

Charade

Cha-rade′

,
Noun.
[F.
charade
, cf. Pr.
charrada
long chat, It
ciarlare
to chat, whence E.
charlatan
.]
A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

Webster 1828 Edition

Charade

CHARADE

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Noun.
A composition, in which the subject must be a word of two syllables, each forming a distinct word; and these syllables are to be concealed in an enigmatical description, first separately and then together. Example. My first, when a Frenchman in learning English, serves him to swear by. My second is either hay or corn. My whole is the delight of the age.

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